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unusual facts about ladies-in-waiting



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"Waiting Room" was featured on The Wildhearts covers album Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before Vol 1. Atom & His Package has recorded a cover of the song.

2007 Croatian coast fires

The state road was closed in the section from Konavle to Zaton, so the drivers there had to spend the night waiting on the road.

Adam Gorgoni

He is a prolific composer of film and TV scores and has composed music for over 20 films, including Candyman 3: Day of the Dead, Waiting..., The Dead Girl, Starting Out in the Evening and Aliens in America.

Angry Candy

The title comes the last line of the poem "the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls" by E. E. Cummings, "...the/ moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy."

Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine

Arthur's Home Magazine (1852-ca.1898) or Ladies' Home Magazine was an American periodical published in Philadelphia by Timothy Shay Arthur.

Aurora Karamzina

She was made a dame of the Order of Saint Catherine, the highest honor for ladies in Imperial Russia.

Azúcar Moreno

Two minutes of absolute silence ensued with much confusion both on and off stage, with the musicians staring blankly into the TV cameras, then a sudden false start of the backing track, then embarrassed applauds from the audience and legendary BBC commentator Terry Wogan dryly saying "Let's hope it doesn't go on like this or we're in for a very long night, ladies and gentlemen".

Berks and Hants Railway

Mortimer railway station on the Basingstoke branch is a good example of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's "chalet" style station; the main building has a wide roof that extends beyond the walls on all four sides to give shelter to passengers and there is a small waiting shelter on the opposite platform that is in matching style.

Big Egg Wrestling Universe

The event featured representatives from joshi promotions All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW), GAEA Japan, Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (JWP), and Ladies Legend Pro Wrestling (LLPW), as well as puroresu promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (which had a large women's division at the time).

Big Two-Hearted River

In January 1925, while wintering in Schruns, Austria, waiting for a response from query letters written to friends and publishers in America, Hemingway submitted the story to be published in his friend Ernest Walsh's newly established literary magazine This Quarter.

Chris Read

Several years in the international wilderness followed, Read being overlooked in favour of first Paul Nixon and then James Foster as keeper-in-waiting in preparation for the retirement of Alec Stewart.

David Sheehan

In the 1980s, while at NBC, Sheehan was the first local entertainment reporter to host and produce his own series of network specials, including “Macho Men of the Movies” (with Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger) and “Hollywood’s Leading Ladies” (with Julia Roberts, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone and Barbra Streisand).

David Waweru

Events, dubbed BookTalkAfrica have already been held in Nairobi and Kampala where people queued waiting to speak to their favourite authors.

Elizabeth Bassett

Lady Elizabeth Basset (1908–2000), lady-in-waiting to Queen Elziabeth, the Queen Mother

Galaxy of the Lost

Also, "Waiting Game" features additional vocals by Derek Pressnal from Tilly and the Wall, and guitars from Mike Mogis.

Gary Tyler

The British band Chumbawamba included the song "Waiting for the Bus" on their 2008 album The Boy Bands Have Won.

Hasan Adan Samatar

A spokesman for Eagle Media, which had put together the tribute dinner and gala party, indicated that the organization had sought to present Samatar the prize years earlier but was waiting for the artist to return to Minnesota.

Heinrich von Kittlitz

It was during his time in Egypt whilst waiting for a boat that he collected specimens of the bird which became known as Kittlitz's Plover.

Henrietta Keddie

She also did educational work, such as Musical Composers and their Works (1875) and The Old Masters and their Pictures for the Use of Schools and Learners in Art (1880), and biographical compendia such as Six Royal Ladies of the House of Hanover (1898).

Henry Kolker

On stage he appeared opposite such leading ladies as Edith Wynne Matthison, Bertha Kalich and Ruth Chatterton.

Holbeinesque jewellery

Such designs were inspired by the art of Hans Holbein the Younger, and were often copied from jewellery depicted in Holbein's portraits of Tudor ladies from the court of Henry VIII by jewellers such as John Brogden and his fellow worker, Carlo Giuliano.

If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem

The Wild Palms is quoted in Jean-Luc Godard's 1959 film, Breathless ("À bout de souffle"), when Patricia claims to prefer to take "grief rather than nothing"; the same quote is cited in the 1986 John Hughes comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, when Principal Rooney "consoles" Sloan while waiting in front of the school.

In Darkness Waiting

In Darkness Waiting is a science fiction short story by Stephen Leigh.

Irina Armstrong

She is currently one of the top ladies' dart players in the BDO circuit.

Isaiah Berlin

In 1956, he married Aline Halban, née de Gunzbourg, who was not only the former wife of an Oxford colleague and a former winner of the ladies' golf championship of France, but from an exiled half Russian-aristocratic and half ennobled-Jewish banking and petroleum family (her mother was Yvonne Deutsch de la Meurthe, granddaughter of Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe) based in Paris.

John of Ávila

While waiting in Seville, his unusually great devotion in celebrating Mass, and his skills in catechesis and preaching, attracted the attention of Hernando de Contreras, a local priest, who mentioned him to the Archbishop of Seville and Inquisitor General, Alonso Manrique de Lara.

John Tenniel

For this he received a £200 premium and a commission to paint a fresco in the Upper Waiting Hall (or Hall of Poets) in the House of Lords.

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Other episodes that were later expanded into theatrical films (initially for European release) included "Once Upon a Savage Night" (released as Nightmare In Chicago) and "In Darkness, Waiting" (Strategy of Terror).

Ladies' Night

"Not Tonight", remixed as "Ladies' Night", a 1997 song by Lil' Kim

Les larmes de l'émigration

After a two-year absence, Alassane Diago returns to Agnam Lidoubé, a Senegalese village in the Fouta region, to try and understand why and how his mother has spent all these years waiting.

Let the Sun Shine

Oh, and as if we couldn't be any more impressed, apparently there’s even a "Cyndi Lauper-esque track" waiting on his album.

Line 2, Wuhan Metro

Stations of Line 2 provides female only waiting area during hours of operation, following the example of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Tehran and Mexico City, to protect female riders from sexual harassment.

Louis B. Butler

NPR commented on the Senate's reluctance to confirm Butler in an August 4, 2011 article, stating that "Some of the longest waiting nominees, Louis Butler of Wisconsin, Charles Bernard Day of Maryland and Edward Dumont of Washington happen to be black or openly gay".

Mauricio Ochmann

In 2003, he returned to film with Ladies' Night and in 2004 with 7 mujeres, 1 homosexual y Carlos.

Methodist Ladies' College

Scotch Oakburn College, Tasmania (Amalgamation of Methodist Ladies' College, Oakburn College and Scotch College)

Miles Stapleton

Sir Miles Stapleton married firstly Elizabeth Felbrigge, daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigge, Knight of the Garter, of Felbrigg, Norfolk by Margaret, perhaps of Teschen, a kinswoman and lady in waiting to English queen Anne of Bohemia.

Ministry of Fear

While waiting for a train to London, Neale visits a village fête hosted by the Mothers of Free Nations charity.

Olivia Anderson

In the English 2010 season, she played for Shepperton, both for the ladies team, and the men's second team, in both of which she was the leading run scorer (also coming 5th in the men's league averages) as well as keeping wicket.

Operation Anglo

Using a torch to signal to the waiting submarine, The signal "swimming-come in" was seen by Commander Michael St John of the HMS Traveller.

Ostrów Tumski, Wrocław

After taking control of the area and waiting for the political situation in Silesia to stabilize, he chose Ostrów Tumski as his new seat.

Queenscliffe Maritime Museum

Its grounds hold a fishermen's waiting shed with ship paintings by Henry Zanoni, the deck house from the iron sailing ship Shandon, and the buried hull of the Victorian torpedo boat HMVS Lonsdale.

Richard Le Gallienne

The book My Ladies' Sonnets appeared in 1887, and in 1889 be became for a brief time literary secretary to Wilson Barrett.

Surbiton Hockey Club

In addition, Surbiton Ladies have played in two successive Investec Women's Cup finals whilst in the Conference East, losing 4-1  to Premier Division opposition on both occasions (Bowdon Hightown in 2010-11; and the University of Birmingham in 2011-12).

Terry Fox Award

Despite obvious physical pain, she went on to win bronze in the Ladies' Individual Sprint Classic.

The Ladies' Repository

The Ladies' Repository was a monthly periodical based in Cincinnati and produced by members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Vladimir Estragon

Both names were chosen by Harth who had favored Samuel Becket as a writer from around 1968 on.Harth interpreted the two characters Wladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot as West Germany and East Germany during the Cold War who are waiting for unification.Surprisingly to everybody the iron curtain collapsed some months after the foundation of the music group Vladimir Estragon.

William Sansom

In his classical work The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman used an extended paragraph of Sansom's A Contest of Ladies to develop his model of the social role and the dramaturgical approach to sociology.

Wow Mali

Another comedy gag show in TV5 was Ogags hosted by two Brazilan ladies Daiana Menezes and Ariana Barouk.

Yaza Ne Win

He is the son of two-time Myanmar Academy Award winning Kawleikgyin Ne Win, and the elder brother of famous singer Hayma Ne Win and a first cousin of Eindra Kyaw Zin, one of the most successful models and leading ladies of Burmese cinema.


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Anna Catharina von Bärfelt

The court demanded she be investigated, and Arvid Horn, the queen dowager's priest Molin, Christina Piper, and several ladies-in-waiting Märta Berendes and Beata Sparre formed an alliance with Carl Gyllenstierna and unanimously repeated the demand.

Anne Askew

The intention of her interrogators may have been to implicate the Queen, Catherine Parr, through the latter's ladies-in-waiting and close friends, who were suspected of having also harboured Protestant beliefs.

Augusta von Fersen

Together with the ladies-in-waiting Ulla von Höpken (her sister) and Lovisa Meijerfeldt, she was known as one of "The Three Graces", as expressed by Johan Henric Kellgren in his poem "Gracernas döpelse" - the Graces were the Goddesses of Joy in Greek mythology.

Concerto delle donne

The singers of the second era of the concerto delle donne were officially ladies-in-waiting of Duchess Margherita Gonzaga d'Este, but were hired primarily as singers.

Diego de San Pedro

The Tractado de amores de Arnalte y Lucenda is dedicated to Queen Isabel’s ladies-in-waiting and to the queen herself.

Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg

On 23 August 1800, in Coswig, Frederick married one of his mother's ladies in waiting, Wilhelmine Freiin von Tunderfeld-Rhodis (* 1777; † 1822), daughter of Baron Karl August Wilhelm von Tunderfeld-Rhodis.

Nicholas Annenkov

Until their marriages, General Annenkov's daughters served as ladies-in-waiting to Empress Maria Alexandrovna.

Ulla von Höpken

Ulla was used as the model of the naked Venus sculpture by Johan Tobias Sergel, Venus aux belles fesses (1779): King Gustav III wished to have a statue of Venus opposite his statue of Apollo in his salon, and "as a compliment to our ladies in waiting", Ulla von Höpken was chosen as the model.